Here are the lectures that I gave during my January 2009 class. You may view the PDF files of the slides below. For some lectures I also distributed some example files to my class electronically; I have made those available as .zip files where appropriate.
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| Slides | Files | Description |
| Lecture 1 | Getting Started—Word Processors vs. LaTeX; A First Document; Errors |
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| Lecture 2 | Typing Text—Document Structure; Environments and Commands; Symbols; Formatting and Positioning Text |
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| Lecture 3 | More on Typing Text—Font Sizes; Units of the Document; Spaces; Boxes; Displayed Text Environments; Tables |
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| Lecture 4 | Typing Math—Getting Started; Working with Math | |
| Lecture 5 | More Math—Symbols; Multiline Mathematics | |
| Lecture 6 | files | The Structure of a Document—Document Layout; Packages |
| Lecture 7 | files | Counters; Theorems, Cross-references |
| Lecture 8 | files | Including Graphics in a Document |
| Lecture 9 | files | Tables; Figures; BibTeX |
| Lecture 10 | files | Making PDF Documents and the hyperref package |
| Lecture 11 | files | Customizing Lists; More on Tables |
| Lecture 12 | files | Presentations with beamer and powerdot |
| Lecture 13 | Typing in a Foreign Language; the babel package | |
| Lecture 14 | files | User-defined Commands; Columns; Section Titles |
| Lecture 15 | files | Drawing in LaTeX; the pstricks package; colors |
| Lecture 16 | files | More with pstricks—Linestyles and Fillstyles; Graphing; Nodes and Connections |
| Lecture 17 | files | Fonts—Fonts in Text; Fonts in Math; Font Support |